Shoe.



PATENTED MAY 5, 1908.

J. M. QUIN.

SHOE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1907.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED MAY '5, 1908. J.- M. QUIN. I

SHOE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 190 7.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

I/Vi ha zoom JOHN M. QUIN, OF UTICA, NEW YORK, AssioNoR-To DANIEL GREEN FELT SHOE COMPANY,

' OF DOLGEVILLE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SHOE

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Application filed July 1, 1907. Serial No. 381,716.

v To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. QUIN, of

Utica, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvement in shoes and in a blank for making the same,

and the object of my invention is to provide a shoe of'the slipper ty e, whether of all felt,

.or artly felt and part y leather, or of a so cal ed Romeo or other out in which the blank.

for the upper proper is formed of one piece of material. I

In the preferable embodiment of my invention'I form an integral tongue which is so cut from the blank as to have extensions which extend sidewis'e to lap over the sides of the up er proper. I

l y invention may therefore be said to consist of a shoe and in the blank for making the same which I shall hereinafter more particularly describe and then definitely claim.

In the accompan 'ng drawings which represent the referabl el embodiment of my invention: igure 1 is a perspective View of a shoe made in accordance wlth my invention. Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5are details which will be hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 6 is an outline for the blank of the up er of the same. .Fig. 7 is a view of a II10(l1 'cation.

Referring now to the details of the drawings by numerals: 1 designates the blank which as illustrated in Fig. 6 is for that char acter of' shoe in which the blank not only forms the upper but'is also formed so that its two sides 2 and 3 are shaped or molded to form the bottom of the shoe to which the outer sole is secured, the edges 2 and 3 being secured to other on a line running longitudinally of t e' sole and the edges preferably being covered by a thin inner sole. :The

blank also comprises an integral tongue 5 and at the rear the blank is formed into two parts '7 and 8 which, in the com leted shoe, are sewed together to form the ack of the up er. Instead of having the portions 2 and 3 s aped to entirely cover the upper surface of the outer sole, the blank ma be formed narrower and secured b stitc ing to the outer sole at the edges thereof in the usual manner. As so far described the blank and its shoe are those commonly em loyed in the manufacture of felt shoes. y my invention however the blank shown in Fig. 6 is so made that much less material is used than in the ordinary blank and yet I am enabled to. form an integral tongue 5 with integral extensions which I have marked 8 and 9. As ordinarily cut the blank is formed as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 6 which makes a very narrow tongue and one that afiords little or i no protection to the feet at the oint where the tongue covers the instep. I ut by cutting the'blank as shown b the full lines 12 and 13in Fig. 6, I am enabhed to form extensions which, after the up eris properly shaped and made part of t e shoe, project down over the sides of the upper and thus form ade uate rotection tothe' foot of the wearer. n or er to form the wide extensions 8 and 9 the sides of the upper are necessarily cut so as toleave a larger space between the sides of the upper as laid out in Fig. 6, and to fill out this space I employ filling pieces 15. and 16 which are stitched in by a zlgzag stitching machine as illustrated in Fig. 2'.

To provide an ornamental finish to the inter aced through the slits in this facin It will be observed-that the facing not 0 y provides an ornamental appearance for the shoe but it serves to cover the place where the pieces 15 and 16 are inserted and it will also -be observedthat because these slittedfacings are entirely protected from the shoe by the intervening upper proper,- the ribbon which is interlaced in the facings does not come in contact with the stocking of the wearer.

Instead of forming the blank as illustrated in Fig. 6 it maybe formed asshown in Fig. 7

wherein the tongue proper is not provided of the upper but wherein the acing is rovided with an extension on its side ,w ich serves somewhat the same purpose, although withintegral extensions overlap ing the sides not quite as effectually as the integral extensions shown in Figs. 1 and 2. I

From the foregoing and the accompanying drawings it will e seen that Ihave provided a felt shoe with an integral tongue formed with Wide extensions-which overlap the sides of the upper and thus effectually protect the foot of the wearer at this point and at the same time have provided a shoe which is ornamental in appearance and pleasing to the What I claim as new is:

1. A blank for a shoe having integral side portions and an integral tongue, said tongue having extensions adapted to overlap the sides of the shoe, substantially as described.

2. A blank for a shoe having integral side portions and an integral tongue, said side portions and said tongue being of one piece of material, and said tongue having widened ortions forming extensions adapted to over- 1 ap the sides of the shoe, substantially as deextensions overlapping the sides of the upl per, and said upper having filling pieces sel 6. In a shoe, an upper having integral side portions and an integral tongue, said tongue havingwidened portions forming extensions overlapping the sides of the upper, said upper having filling pieces secured thereto at points covered by said extensions, and a fa c-' ing covering said filling pieces and the upper parts of the upper and tongue and having slits therein, substantially as described.

7. In a shoe, an upper formed of one piece of felt forming the entire body of the shoe,

and having an integral tongue, said tongue having extensions overlapping the sides of the upper and affording protection to the foot, substantially as described.

Signed by me at 119 West 23d Str. New York city this 8th day of June 1907.

JOHN M; QUIN. Witnesses:

WM. R. GREEN, OSCAR BRANDT. 

